Research on the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programs

3 papers found

• 1972· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 1
  Ross, J. The effects of the Transcendental Meditation Program on anxiety, neuroticism, and psychoticism. Master’s thesis (summary), Graduate Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1972.

  Anxiety, neuroticism, and psychoticism decreased in people who regularly practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique.

  • Psychological Health: Decreased Neuroticism
  • Psychological Health: Decreased Psychoticism
• 1999· Social Indicators Research· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 7
  Hagelin, John S.; Rainforth, Maxwell V.; Orme-Johnson, David W.; Cavanaugh, Kenneth L.; Alexander, Charles N.; Shatkin, Susan F.; Davies, John L.; Hughes, Anne O.; and Ross, Emanuel. Effects of group practice of the Transcendental Meditation program on preventing violent crime in Washington, DC: Results of the National Demonstration Project, June–July, 1993. Social Indicators Research 47: 153–201, 1999.

  During the period of a large assembly of experts in the Transcendental Meditation Sidhi program, including Yogic Flying, in Washington, D.C. in June and July of 1993, there was a significant decrease in violent crime (homicides, rapes, assaults) as indicated by time series analysis, with results independent of temperature and police staffing.

  • Sociological—Reduced Crime: Decreased Violent Crime (Washington, D.C., June–July 1993)
• 2011· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 6
  Hagelin, John S.; Rainforth, Maxwell V.; Orme-Johnson, David W.; Cavanaugh, Kenneth L.; Alexander, Charles N.; Shatkin, Susan F.; Davies, John L.; Hughes, Anne O.; and Ross, Emanuel. Effects of group practice of the Transcendental Meditation program on preventing violent crime in Washington, DC: Results of the National Demonstration Project, June–July 1993. Summary.

  This study found that during a two-month period in which an increasingly large group of participants in the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program assembled in Washington, DC, there was a significant decrease in violent crime in the District of Columbia; violent crime decreased as the size of the group increased.

  • Sociological—Improved Quality of Life: Improved Quality of City Life as Measured by Decreased Violent Crime Rate in the National Capital (Washington, DC, USA, June and July, 1993)